Bruchhausen (Alzenau)
Bruchhausen was once a village in the Lower Franconian district of Aschaffenburg and used to belong to Hörstein as a district . The settlement was on the territory of the free court and no longer exists today.
Surname
Bruchhausen is made up of the ancient words Bruch- (= swamp floor, moist meadow) and -hausen (= dwelling in a new Rodland- "husen"). The name has changed several times over the centuries. In 1268 they wrote Bruchusen , in 1325 Brochusen , in 1362 the place was called Bruchusin .
geography
Where exactly Bruchhausen was cannot be said with any certainty. According to some sources, the disappeared village was located directly on the Hörstein wall, where the Wilgefortis Chapel from 1548 still stands today. As a result, the stream source ditch flowing through Hörstein was the border between the places.
From other information we can see that Bruchhausen was further south at the lower end of the Elmertsgrund on the Häggraben , between Hörstein and Kleinostheim in the Urmaintal . Some of the fields and meadows of Bruchhausen are said to have been located on Kleinostheimer Boden, north of the farmhouse .
The street Bruchhausen in Hörstein is named after the desert. In Großwelzheim, the Bruchhäuser Weg also points to the earlier settlement.
history
Bruchhausen was first mentioned in a document in 1268. The village probably consisted of several farms. This included 161 acres of fields and meadows, most of which belonged to the Seligenstadt monastery . In the Middle Ages Bruchhausen belonged to the Hörstein court , which in turn was part of the Alzenau free court . The free court was directly imperial , but the empire pledged or lent the area again and again. So the rulers changed, including the lords and later counts of Hanau , the lords of Randenburg and the lords of Eppstein . Probably parts of Bruchhausen were destroyed by a flood of the Main in 1342 and then rebuilt.
Web links
- The village of Bruchhausen, which has now disappeared, was located between Dettingen and Kleinostheim (PDF; 2.6 MB)
- Today's Hörstein was the settlement of Bruchhausen and Hörstein
Individual evidence
- ↑ Our Kahlgrund 1966 . Homeland yearbook for the Alzenau district. Published by the working group for homeland research and homeland maintenance of the Alzenau district, district administrator. ISSN 0933-1328 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 2 '31.4 " N , 9 ° 3' 44.7" E